Codex Lethbridge
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The banner for their society, made in Germany and costing $40°°, has arrived. It is not as handsome as we expected it would be for that money
The banner will be blessed on Sunday next.
July 2t [written in back/right margin] Yesterday… while the Bell was calling the faithfull [sic] to Mass… the Minors Band excorting [sic] the Members of the Society of St. John the Baptist marched from the Town and proceded [sic] to the Church Banner in front… The church was crowded with people and after Mass the Banner was solemnly blessed… The ceremony was touching, The President of the Society held the Banner and stood on the first step of the Sanctuary, while the Sponsors : Mr. Thomas Curry and Mrs Barclay held the Tassels; Then two lines were formed by the members of the Society, encircling the priest and Altar boys. The father made a short allocution and congratulated the Slavonians on their Spirit of Charity and Union.
The Reverend Father Fouquet, an old missionary of the Oblate Order, shall be here for next Sunday. He cometh for the purpose of preaching the yearly retreat to the Mothers and Sisters, Faithful Companions of Jesus.
Yesterday July 2. [written in back/right margin]
Two adults, Hungarians, and a child of about Five years, were received in the Catholic Faith and baptized Sub Condition. They previously belonged to the Calvinistic church. These conversions are the good result of the Slavish Society of St John the Baptist.
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1895 [scribbled on top of the page]
Augt 11th [written in front/left margin] Another Hungarian, a young man of about twenty one years, was received in the bosom of the Catholic Church this morning. Deo Gratias !
Augt.t 22 [written in front/left margin] His Lordship Bishop Grandin has arrived in Lethbridge, accompanied by the rev.d Father Lestanc superior of the Calgary Mission, Rev. Fathers Touquet, Lecoq and Cunningham.
Rev.d Father Legal will arrive on Saturday with three Sisters, Grey Nuns to assist also at the first consacration [sic] of a Catholic Church in the North West Territories. R. Father Doucet from the Blackfoot Reserve will arrive to morrow.
Aug.t 26 [written in front/left margin; vertical blue line in the margin underneath] The great ceremony is passed!!!! The prayers of the Consecration begun at eight O’Clock yesterday and terminated at One O’Clock only. Every body, especially His Lordship was very tired.
The High Mass began at half passed eleven only. the music was the best we ever had in Lethbridge; two brass instruments, two violins, one sub base, together with the grand organ, filled the Church with their Melodious strains. The Northwest review giveth the following report of the festivity.
On Sunday, 25.th August 1895, the right Reverend Bishop Grandin, assisted by the reverend Father Lestanc, Fouquet, Legal, Lecoq, Cunningham, Doucet and the reverend pastor Father VanTighem, solemnly Consecrated the Church of St Patrick in Lethbridge. It is the fourth church consecrated in this
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The banner for their society, made in Germany and costing $40°°, has arrived. It is not as handsome as we expected it would be for that money
The banner will be blessed on Sunday next.
July 2t [written in back/right margin] Yesterday… while the Bell was calling the faithfull [sic] to Mass… the Minors Band excorting [sic] the Members of the Society of St. John the Baptist marched from the Town and proceded [sic] to the Church Banner in front… The church was crowded with people and after Mass the Banner was solemnly blessed… The ceremony was touching, The President of the Society held the Banner and stood on the first step of the Sanctuary, while the Sponsors : Mr. Thomas Curry and Mrs Barclay held the Tassels; Then two lines were formed by the members of the Society, encircling the priest and Altar boys. The father made a short allocution and congratulated the Slavonians on their Spirit of Charity and Union.
The Reverend Father Fouquet, an old missionary of the Oblate Order, shall be here for next Sunday. He cometh for the purpose of preaching the yearly retreat to the Mothers and Sisters, Faithful Companions of Jesus.
Yesterday July 2. [written in back/right margin]
Two adults, Hungarians, and a child of about Five years, were received in the Catholic Faith and baptized Sub Condition. They previously belonged to the Calvinistic church. These conversions are the good result of the Slavish Society of St John the Baptist.
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[Right page]
1895 [scribbled on top of the page]
Augt 11th [written in front/left margin] Another Hungarian, a young man of about twenty one years, was received in the bosom of the Catholic Church this morning. Deo Gratias !
Augt.t 22 [written in front/left margin] His Lordship Bishop Grandin has arrived in Lethbridge, accompanied by the rev.d Father Lestanc superior of the Calgary Mission, Rev. Fathers Touquet, Lecoq and Cunningham.
Rev.d Father Legal will arrive on Saturday with three Sisters, Grey Nuns to assist also at the first consacration [sic] of a Catholic Church in the North West Territories. R. Father Doucet from the Blackfoot Reserve will arrive to morrow.
Aug.t 26 [written in front/left margin; vertical blue line in the margin underneath] The great ceremony is passed!!!! The prayers of the Consecration begun at eight O’Clock yesterday and terminated at One O’Clock only. Every body, especially His Lordship was very tired.
The High Mass began at half passed eleven only. the music was the best we ever had in Lethbridge; two brass instruments, two violins, one sub base, together with the grand organ, filled the Church with their Melodious strains. The Northwest review giveth the following report of the festivity.
On Sunday, 25.th August 1895, the right Reverend Bishop Grandin, assisted by the reverend Father Lestanc, Fouquet, Legal, Lecoq, Cunningham, Doucet and the reverend pastor Father VanTighem, solemnly Consecrated the Church of St Patrick in Lethbridge. It is the fourth church consecrated in this
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